Arbeitspapier
B2B e-commerce marketplaces and MSMES: Evidence of global value chain facilitation?
In theory, e-commerce marketplaces connect buyers and sellers, open trade opportunities, and reduce transaction costs thereby creating opportunities for more inclusive trade and even GVC participation, especially for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Further, there is some evidence that MSMEs are more likely to use e-commerce marketplaces than large firms given these websites reduce search frictions and transaction costs, which can be relatively more beneficial for smaller firms. This discussion paper explores non-traditional data to investigate whether e-commerce marketplaces may contribute to MSME GVC participation. By looking at the development of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplaces, the gross merchandise value (GMV) of regional e-commerce marketplaces, and MSMEs' overall participation in B2B e-commerce marketplaces, descriptive statistics are gathered that contributes to the overall discussion on this topic. This discussion paper also links B2B e-commerce marketplaces with GVC facilitation through a novel approach of cataloguing these platforms' merchandise and finds that on average, roughly one third of B2B e-commerce marketplace listings are intermediate goods.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WTO Staff Working Paper ; No. ERSD-2022-7
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
- Subject
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Micro
Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (MSME)
SME
e-commerce
marketplaces
global value chains (GVC)
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ladrière, Maxime
Lundquist, Kathryn
Ye, Qing
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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World Trade Organization (WTO)
- (where)
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Geneva
- (when)
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2022
- DOI
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doi:10.30875/25189808-2022-7
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ladrière, Maxime
- Lundquist, Kathryn
- Ye, Qing
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Time of origin
- 2022
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